Skip to Content
Merck
All Photos(1)

Key Documents

View All Documentation

778788

Sigma-Aldrich

α-Cyclodextrin

produced by Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen, Germany, ≥98.0% (HPLC)

Synonym(s):

Cavamax® W6, alpha-Cyclodextrin, α-Schardinger dextrin, Cyclohexaamylose, Cyclomaltohexaose

Sign Into View Organizational & Contract Pricing
All Photos(1)

About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C36H60O30
CAS Number:
10016-20-3
Molecular Weight:
972.84
Beilstein:
79627
EC Number:
233-007-4
MDL number:
MFCD00078207
UNSPSC Code:
12352005
PubChem Substance ID:
329767994
NACRES:
NA.22

grade

produced by Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen, Germany

Assay

≥98.0% (HPLC)

form

solid

loss

≤11.0% loss on drying

mp

>278 °C (dec.) (lit.)

SMILES string

OC[C@H]1O[C@@H]2O[C@H]3[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O[C@@H]3CO)O[C@H]4[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O[C@@H]4CO)O[C@H]5[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O[C@@H]5CO)O[C@H]6[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O[C@@H]6CO)O[C@H]7[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@H](O[C@@H]7CO)O[C@H]1[C@H](O)[C@H]2O

InChI

1S/C36H60O30/c37-1-7-25-13(43)19(49)31(55-7)62-26-8(2-38)57-33(21(51)15(26)45)64-28-10(4-40)59-35(23(53)17(28)47)66-30-12(6-42)60-36(24(54)18(30)48)65-29-11(5-41)58-34(22(52)16(29)46)63-27-9(3-39)56-32(61-25)20(50)14(27)44/h7-54H,1-6H2/t7-,8-,9-,10-,11-,12-,13-,14-,15-,16-,17-,18-,19-,20-,21-,22-,23-,24-,25-,26-,27-,28-,29-,30-,31-,32-,33-,34-,35-,36-/m1/s1

InChI key

HFHDHCJBZVLPGP-RWMJIURBSA-N

Looking for similar products? Visit Product Comparison Guide

General description

α-Cyclodextrin (α-CD) is a cyclic oligosaccharide that consists of six glucopyranose units linked by α-(1,4) bonds. It is mainly used as a stabilizer for emulsions such as mayonnaise, margarine or butter creams.

Application

α-Cyclodextrin can form host-guest inclusion complexes with a wide variety of organometallics, which can as be used as a template for silica nanocasting to synthesize nanodisperse inorganic-organic hybrid materials. α-CD can undergo cross-linking with poly(ethylene oxide)s to form injectable and bioabsorbable supramolecular hydrogels.

Legal Information

Cavasol is a registered trademark of Wacker Chemie AG

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Certificates of Analysis (COA)

Search for Certificates of Analysis (COA) by entering the products Lot/Batch Number. Lot and Batch Numbers can be found on a product’s label following the words ‘Lot’ or ‘Batch’.

Already Own This Product?

Find documentation for the products that you have recently purchased in the Document Library.

Visit the Document Library

Cyclodextrins and their uses: a review.
Del V E M M.
Process Biochemistry (Oxford, United Kingdom), 39(9), 1033-1046 (2004)
Injectable drug?delivery systems based on supramolecular hydrogels formed by poly (ethylene oxide) s and α?cyclodextrin.
Li J N X and Leong K W
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 65(2), 196-202 (2003)
The Beneficial Effects a-Cyclodextrin on Blood Lipids and Weight Loss in Healthy Humans
Comerford KB, et al
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 19(6), 1200-1204 (2011)
One-step synthesis of copper nanoparticles containing mesoporous silica by nanocasting of binuclear copper (II) complexes with cyclodextrins.
Han B H and Antonietti M
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 13(7), 1793-1796 (2003)
Michael Kundel et al.
Analytical chemistry, 84(3), 1439-1445 (2012-01-17)
Here we present a new application of a time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (TOF-AMS) for the measurement of atmospheric trace gases in real-time. Usually, TOF-AMS instruments are not sensitive to gas-phase species due to the aerodynamic particle focusing inlet system which
View All Related Papers

Our team of scientists has experience in all areas of research including Life Science, Material Science, Chemical Synthesis, Chromatography, Analytical and many others.

Contact Technical Service